Re: International identity data standards?

I don't think ldap proposed or Canadian standards are at all appropriate
for international addresses. Alibaba's enlightened but not progressive
approach was to allow several thousand characters and no formatting
restrictions to allow people to write their address. A typical mailing
address in India and China is around 30 to 100 words.

The ISO has a series of standards on how the various character sets can be
transcribed to printable characters.

Google is probably the forerunner in displaying addresses, but they do
things that are hard for the rest of us to mimic. A few minutes looking at
Google maps in Africa and Bangladesh should be fairly impressive.

Is there additional progress supporting unicode-16 in ldap standards?

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:53 PM =Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
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> Love it, Anil. Sounds like a job for...Verifiable Credentials!
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:38 AM John, Anil <anil.john@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:
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>> *Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;   *: -)
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>> Anil John
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>> *From:* Liam McCarty <liam@unumid.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, August 23, 2019 3:26 PM
>> *To:* public-vc-comments@w3.org; public-credentials@w3.org
>> *Subject:* International identity data standards?
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>> Hi all,
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>> Is there work being done to create international standards for identity
>> data? For example, it would clearly be valuable to have standards for
>> common data points like name, address, phone number, etc. If not that, it'd
>> be helpful to at least have standardized mappings between different
>> regional formats.
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>> I've done some preliminary research and discovered groups like the NIEM
>> (National Information Exchange Model, which is U.S.-based) and UPU
>> (Universal Postal Union), but not anything more comprehensive. If
>> international standards already exist, could someone point me in the right
>> direction?
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>> If not, creating international identity data standards seems like a
>> natural extension of the work on DIDs and VCs. Would love to help kickstart
>> that if people would find it useful.
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>> *Liam McCarty*
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>> Co-Founder of ePluribus <https://epluribus.io>, Unum ID
>> <https://unumid.org>
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